BJP leader K. Surendran has accused the IUML and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind of exerting decisive influence over the UDF-led government in Kerala, alleging that the Muslim League has been shaping governance decisions since the administration took office. The remarks sharpen political tensions in the state and revive a long-running contest over the ideological direction and policy autonomy of the ruling coalition.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest film is a maximalist, self-aware apocalypse that treats cinematic excess as both subject and weapon. With Tom Cruise cast as a man trapped inside the machinery of the joke, the film becomes a grand, Russian-doll exercise in control, spectacle, and self-mythology.
A Jammu-based Hindu organisation has called for a ban on halal certification, arguing that the label has expanded beyond meat products and should be restricted to willing consumers and essential items only. The demand adds fresh pressure to an already sensitive debate over food certification, consumer choice and the boundaries of religiously framed market practices in India.
A fresh selloff has hit India’s penny stock universe, with nine counters falling as much as 57% over the past two months and 14 names losing between 20% and 57%. Kalind led the decline, while Cropster Agro and PVV Infra also posted steep losses, underscoring the volatility and liquidity risks that continue to define the lower end of the market. The rout comes as investors reassess speculative positions amid a broader preference for quality and earnings visibility.
India’s medal count at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 reflects a broad-based campaign across track and field, combat sports, shooting, and team events, underscoring the country’s growing depth beyond its traditional strongholds. The full list of Indian medallists, categorised by sport, highlights both established champions and emerging names who delivered on one of the continent’s biggest stages.
Tamil Nadu Under-23 batter Madhava Prasad has pointed to the influence of senior cricketers Baba Aparajith and Varun Chakravarthy, along with coach Guru, as central to his recent progress. He also said the strong camaraderie inside the group has helped him settle, learn faster and translate that support into performances.
At Artiform in Mylapore, a new exhibition brings together six Chennai artists whose work turns wood, metal, graphite and paper into vessels of memory, texture and lived experience. The show frames material transformation as both artistic method and narrative device, placing craft, abstraction and personal history in close conversation.
The Supreme Court has declined to halt, at least for now, the government’s new merchant discount rate policy that imposes a 0.4% charge on certain Unified Payments Interface transactions above ₹2,000. The court issued notices to the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and other respondents after a public interest petition challenged the legality of the levy, which is scheduled to take effect on October 15.
Geopolitical disruptions are already feeding through two of the four key transmission channels to the global economy—fuel and finance—according to economist Neelkanth Mishra. He said India is relatively better positioned than many peers, but remains exposed through higher energy costs, market volatility and broader external spillovers.
Around 150 protesters, including AISA president Neha Bora, senior advocate Prashant Bhushan and other prominent lawyers and activists, were detained in New Delhi during a demonstration against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The protest drew a cross-section of student leaders, legal activists and public intellectuals, underscoring rising scrutiny over electoral governance and the conduct of the Election Commission.
The Indian government is assessing revised financial bids from Fairfax Financial Holdings and Emirates NBD for the proposed sale of its 60.72% stake in IDBI Bank, according to sources familiar with the process. The transaction, one of the most closely watched banking privatisations in India, is moving ahead at a measured pace as officials review valuation, structure and regulatory considerations.
Fishermen from the Loop Road area are set to hold a black flag protest on Sunday, signalling mounting frustration over unresolved local issues. The demonstration is expected to draw attention to concerns affecting livelihoods, access, and day-to-day working conditions in the coastal community.
‘Avaraachan and Sons’ arrives as an old-fashioned family entertainer dressed in contemporary packaging, but its writing rarely rises above routine. The film’s biggest asset is Biju Menon, whose easy authority and comic timing keep the drama watchable even when the narrative settles into predictable beats.
TinkerHub will host a free overnight hackathon in Kozhikode, opening the event to students and non-working young people aged 15 to 25. Participants will be challenged to build projects around the broad theme of travel, in a format that blends coding, design and problem-solving over a single night.
The initiative reflects the growing use of hackathons as low-barrier civic innovation spaces, especially for young people outside formal employment. By focusing on travel, the event is likely to draw ideas spanning mobility, planning, accessibility and digital convenience.
Calicut University is considering action to restrict the display of political party flags in its hostels, a move that signals a tighter approach to campus discipline and the visible projection of partisan identity in student residential spaces. The proposal comes amid broader concerns over the politicisation of university life and the administration’s effort to assert institutional neutrality.
Director Ram’s latest feature, "Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai," is an ambitious but uneven meditation on mortality, reincarnation and the idea that all life forms matter equally. Anchored by strong performances from Nivin Pauly and Soori, the film is repeatedly undermined by a haphazard narrative structure and an extensive, distracting use of artificial intelligence that feels at odds with its humane intentions.
After a 10-year gap between albums, Chennai indie-rock quartet The F16s has returned with 'All Dogs Go To Heaven', a record that reflects both maturity and a renewed confidence in its own instincts. The band says the new material emerged from a period of going solo, growing older and learning to make peace with vulnerability, including the decision to appear naked on the album cover.
The English-Telugu film 'Impure' uses the familiar grammar of adolescence to mount a pointed social satire, tracing the emotional and moral evolution of two female cousins and their shared male friend. Beneath its coming-of-age surface, the film is more interested in class, gender, and the quiet hypocrisies that shape young adulthood in contemporary India.
Ramesh Bandreddi’s Telugu film 'Thella Kaagitham' arrives as a cautionary drama about adolescent love, shaped by committed performances, evocative music and polished cinematography. Yet despite its technical strengths and emotional intent, the film is held back by a script that often reaches for seriousness without fully earning its moral weight.
Asset-backed borrowing is emerging as a more visible feature of India’s credit ecosystem, with gold-backed loans leading the shift toward quick, collateralised liquidity. As digital lending platforms widen access and improve transparency, borrowers are increasingly using pledged assets to bridge short-term funding needs without selling investments outright.
Five workers were killed and more than 10 others injured after a boiler explosion ripped through a manufacturing facility in the Sri City Special Economic Zone in Andhra Pradesh, triggering a major emergency response. The government has announced an ex gratia payment of ₹50 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased worker and constituted a high-level committee to investigate the cause of the disaster.
Credit card spending in India fell 2.8% month-on-month in August to ₹2.02 lakh crore, down from ₹2.08 lakh crore in July, signalling a moderation in consumer card usage even as annual spending remained higher. Banks also added fewer new cards during the month, with issuances easing 5.6% from July to 1.19 million, taking the total outstanding credit card base to 124.1 million.
Bhogapuram Airport has issued a public advisory cautioning job seekers against fraudulent recruitment messages being circulated in its name and that of its operator. The warning comes after reports of deceptive communications promising employment opportunities, underscoring the growing risk of impersonation scams around major infrastructure projects. Officials urged applicants to rely only on verified channels for hiring updates.
Indian kurash player Yash Kumar Chauhan, 24, has reportedly failed a doping test after his sample was found to contain at least three banned substances, including metabolites of the steroid Metandienone. The case is a serious blow to India’s anti-doping record and could threaten Chauhan’s competitive future as the Asian Games 2026 cycle intensifies.
The Indian government has halved the stock limit for traders to 100 tonnes, in a fresh move aimed at curbing hoarding and easing pressure on food prices. The order will take effect on October 15 and remain in force until November 30, underscoring New Delhi’s renewed focus on supply-side intervention ahead of the festive season.
PSB Bank Chairman Petr Fradkov has described cross-border payments as one of the economy’s most closed and strategically sensitive sectors, arguing that new alternative infrastructure is beginning to redraw the rules of international settlement. In an interview with RBC, he said the A7 international payment system operates in a market where traditional global payment channels are increasingly constrained, forcing institutions to build parallel rails for trade and financial transfers.
ISG is positioning compliance as a foundational requirement for the next wave of agentic commerce, arguing that autonomous digital systems will only scale if governance is built into the architecture from the start. The shift carries particular weight for automotive, EV and mobility businesses, where connected vehicles, digital retail and software-defined services are converging under tighter regulatory scrutiny.
Venu Nair’s Malayalam feature 'Izhakalkkappuram,' released in theatres on Gandhi Jayanthi, is being positioned as a film that invites audiences to examine Gandhian ideals through a more critical, contemporary lens. With Dinesh Paniker, Gautami and Vanchiyoor Praveen Kumar in the cast, the film enters the public conversation at a moment when debates over Gandhi’s legacy remain politically and culturally charged.
INOX Air Products has filed draft red herring prospectus papers with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for an initial public offering, marking a significant capital-markets move by one of India’s established industrial and specialty gases suppliers. The proposed listing underscores continued investor interest in infrastructure-linked, manufacturing-adjacent businesses with recurring demand profiles and long operating histories.
Balaji Tharaneetharan’s ‘Baththa’ is a tender, sharply observed comedy-drama that turns a simple encounter between a feared don and a schoolboy into a layered meditation on innocence, identity, and the social roles people are forced to perform. The film blends humour with emotional restraint, revisiting the director’s gift for finding humanity in unlikely places while tracing the quiet goodness that survives beneath fear and performance.
The Indian government has cut the stock limit for traders to 100 tonnes, down from 200 tonnes, in a targeted attempt to restrain hoarding and ease pressure on food prices. The order will take effect on October 15 and remain in force until November 30, signalling a short-term but forceful intervention in the agricultural supply chain.
Tamil Nadu has operationalised its first barrierless multi-lane free flow tolling system at Paranur on the Tambaram–Tindivanam section of NH-179B, marking a significant shift in highway fee collection and traffic management. The move is expected to reduce congestion, improve travel times and signal a broader transition toward digitally enabled road infrastructure in India.
Avenue Supermarts, the operator of D-Mart, reported standalone revenue of Rs 19,206.18 crore for the second quarter of fiscal 2026, up 18.4% from a year earlier and 4.7% sequentially. The company also expanded its store network to 518 outlets, underscoring continued scale-up in India’s value retail segment even as consumers remain price-sensitive.
Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film arrives as both a fever dream and a rigorous act of film criticism, collapsing the distance between desire, memory, and the machinery of cinema. In a work that is as self-aware as it is unruly, Schoenbrun turns cinephilia into a haunted, erotic language of its own.
Russia is expected to absorb about 70,000 skilled Indian workers this year, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told a parliamentary committee while outlining the broader trajectory of India-Russia ties. His briefing covered trade, investment, energy cooperation, the Ukraine conflict and efforts to secure the welfare of Indians already working in Russia. The disclosure underscores both the deepening labour link between the two countries and New Delhi’s effort to manage the risks of overseas deployment amid a volatile geopolitical backdrop.
Non-banking financial companies now account for half of India’s new-to-credit borrowers, up sharply from 24% in 2016, according to a TransUnion CIBIL-FIDC report covering about 2,000 NBFCs. The shift underscores how NBFCs have become a critical entry point into formal credit for first-time borrowers, particularly in segments linked to mobility, vehicle finance and broader retail lending.
The National Company Law Tribunal has admitted Kotak Mahindra Bank’s insolvency petition against Unity Realty and Developers over an alleged default of ₹68.49 crore. The case stems from financial facilities linked to Unity Infraprojects, with Unity Realty acting as corporate guarantor, and now moves the matter into the formal insolvency resolution process.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh led India’s parliamentary delegation to the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Tanzania, underscoring New Delhi’s effort to project parliamentary diplomacy on a global stage. The visit places India within a wider forum where legislatures debate governance, democratic norms, and international cooperation at a time of heightened geopolitical and institutional flux.
Kannada cinema is confronting a growing credibility problem as film teams increasingly enlist social-media influencers to post scripted praise on X and Instagram around release windows. The practice is amplifying opening-week hype while raising sharper questions about disclosure, consumer trust, and the ethics of digital promotion in India’s fast-evolving entertainment market.
Ixigo’s journey from a travel discovery platform to a full-stack bookings business is now central to its growth story. The company’s mix of trains, flights and buses has given it scale, repeat usage and a cash-generating base that can support newer bets in travel and adjacent services. As India’s online travel market matures, ixigo is positioning itself not just as a marketplace, but as an operating system for mass-market mobility.
Morgan Stanley is working to contain the fallout after an accidental email disclosure surfaced a list of more than 100 potential and ongoing transactions across Asia and other regions, according to people familiar with the matter. The episode has triggered concern over confidentiality controls at one of Wall Street’s most prominent deal advisers and prompted India’s markets regulator, SEBI, to begin examining the implications.
Seeds Fincap has secured more than Rs 100 crore in a Series B funding round led by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, giving the rural-focused lender fresh capital to accelerate its expansion. The company said it will use the proceeds to open additional physical branches, hire field staff, and strengthen risk-tracking systems as it deepens its reach across rural and semi-urban India.
White-collar hiring in India rose 2% in September, with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning roles emerging as the strongest growth engine, up 20% year on year, according to a new report. The Auto sector also posted solid momentum with 11% growth, underscoring selective but broadening demand across knowledge-intensive industries.
Swiss logistics major Kuehne+Nagel has opened a technology centre in Chennai, marking a fresh expansion of its India footprint and underscoring the city’s growing role in global business services. To speed the launch and scale hiring, the company is working with Accenture to support workforce build-up, signalling a measured but strategic bet on India’s talent base.
The National Company Law Tribunal has admitted Kotak Mahindra Bank’s insolvency petition against Unity Realty and Developers over an alleged default of ₹68.49 crore, marking a significant escalation in a dispute linked to financing extended to Unity Infraprojects. The case underscores the continuing stress in parts of India’s real estate credit market, where corporate guarantees are increasingly being tested in insolvency proceedings.
Aries Agro has expanded its manufacturing capacity to 1.01 lakh tonnes, underscoring a broader push to strengthen supply capabilities, widen market reach and deepen engagement with farmers. The company highlighted the expansion, along with technology adoption and a growing distribution network, at its annual general meeting, signalling a strategy focused on operational scale and agribusiness resilience.
India all-rounder Naman Dhir said the team’s approach in Guwahati was built around a simple bowling plan, even as West Indies surged to 405 for seven in the previous ODI. Dhir, who has not yet batted in the first two matches of the series, offered a measured assessment of India’s execution and the demands of containing a powerful batting line-up on a high-scoring surface.
The Education Ministry has announced plans to set up Centres of Excellence in five classical languages, a move aimed at strengthening advanced research, preservation and digitisation of India’s linguistic and literary heritage. The initiative signals a broader policy push to institutionalise scholarship around classical languages and expand access to rare texts, manuscripts and academic resources.
Sagardighi MLA Bayron Biswas sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at his residence in West Bengal, prompting concern across the state’s political spectrum. Several leaders, including Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, have publicly wished him a speedy recovery as the circumstances of the incident remain under review.
India’s government is preparing a new affordable housing policy that could be unveiled within the next six months, according to the real estate industry body Credai. The group has urged policymakers to revise the definition of affordable housing and remove the current ₹45 lakh per-unit price cap, arguing that size-based criteria alone would better reflect market realities and improve supply.
